Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me is the seventh studio album by the Cure, released on May 26, 1987 by Fiction Records. The album helped bring the Cure into the American mainstream, becoming the band’s first album to reach the top 40 of the Billboard 200 chart and achieving platinum certification. Like its predecessor, The Head on the Door, it was also a great international success, reaching the top 10 in numerous countries. In 2000, the album was voted number 256 in Colin Larkin’s All Time Top 1000 Albums. Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me is the last Cure studio album upon which Porl Thompson played keyboards; he played only guitar on all subsequent studio releases. Special guest Andrew Brennan played the saxophone on Hey You!!! and Icing Sugar. The album was recorded at Studio Miraval in Correns, France.
Tracklist:
- The Kiss
- Catch
- Torture
- If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
- Why Can’t I Be You?
- How Beautiful You Are…
- The Snake Pit
- Just Like Heaven
- All I Want
- Hot Hot Hot !!!
- One More Time
- Like Cockatoos
- Icing Sugar
- The Perfect Girl
- A Thousand Hours
- Shiver And Shake
- Fight
the Cure
Robert Smith: guitar, keyboards, vocals, recorder on “The Snakepit” and “Like Cockatoos”
Simon Gallup: bass guitar
Porl Thompson: guitar, keyboards, saxophone on “Shiver and Shake”
Lol Tolhurst: keyboards
Boris Williams: drums, percussion
Roger O’Donnell: keyboards on live tracks from the deluxe edition
Guest musician
Andrew Brennen: saxophone on “Icing Sugar” and “Hey You!!!”
Production
David M. Allen, Robert Smith: production
Sean Burrows, Jacques Hermet: assistant production
Bob Clearmountain: remixing for single version of “Just Like Heaven”
